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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Michael Gorra · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel... |
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
SALLIE BINGHAM · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: eBook
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The definitive biography of Doris Duke, the legendary defiant and notorious tobacco heiress and philanthropist, from renowned author Sallie Bingham.As the founder of the Archive for Women's History and Culture at Duke University's Perkins Library, Sallie Bingham has been granted... |
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Alice L. Baumgartner
Format: Hardcover
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The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837.In... |
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The Spymasters: How the CIA's Directors Shape History and the Future
Chris Whipple · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency - the CIA - as well as a sobering glimpse at the espionage and surveillance challenges of the future.Only fourteen... |
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Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation
Jamie Thompson · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Standoff is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of the deadliest attack on law enforcement since 9/11, and the officers behind an audacious plan to stop it.On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two black... |
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Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
Geraldine Schwarz · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember... |
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To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
Robert Draper · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most disastrous decision in the history of American foreign policy--the decision to invade Iraq.Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion... |
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Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
Al Sharpton · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In RISE UP: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads, Rev. Al Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election, and Trump's subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism. He also amplifies... |
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